Cigarette holder



Feb. 18, 1964 w. P. ALLEN CIGARETTE HOLDER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed June 14, 1962 INVENTOR. 406' Will/hm Paul Allen BY Q4...

Feb. 18, 1964 w. P. ALLEN CIGARETTE HOLDER 2 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed June 14, 1962 William Paul Allen 1N VEN TOR.

United States Patent "ice 3,121,434 CIGARETTE HGLDER William Paul Allen, 3008 Rayner Ave, Baltimore, Md. Filed June 14, 1962, Ser. No. 202,568 3 Claims. (Ci. ISL-175) This invention relates to a holder which is constructed and adapted to protectively enclose a cigarette while it is being smoked.

One object of the invention is to improve upon Patent 2,267,966, granted to me on December 30, 1941. Briefly, my patent has to do with a mouthpiece having a smoke passage therethrough, a barrel attached to and extending axially from one end of the mouthpiece, and a cigarette accommodating tray which is slidingly mounted within the confines of said barrel. Spring means is anchored within the barrel and connected with the tray and serves to normally urge the tray toward and maintain the same within the barrel. A spring-biased latch is mounted on the barrel and cooperable with the wall of the tray for releasably retaining the tray in its barrel-enclosed position.

In carrying out the present invention a slotted barrel and two trays are employed. One tray provides a holder in which the cigarette is cradled. The other tray constitutes a receiver for ashes, the latter tray being mounted removably in a lengthwise position and underlying the slotted bottom of the barrel.

To the ends desired the bottom of the barrel and an aligned bottom portion of the cigarette holding sheath have registered slots therein permitting the ashes from the burning cigarette to gravitate through the slots to accumulate in the ash tray.

One improvement has to do with a hollow cap located at and projecting axially beyond the wind and ash guarding barrel. This cap has an air slot extending thereacross and opening through the tip. The slot is planar and terminates at its rearward portion in diametrically opposite enlarged openings which are adapted to permit a flame from a match or a lighter to be applied to the ignitable end of the cigarette. This slot and openings also serve to admit air to the barrel to support combustion of the cigarette which is confined in the barrel.

Another improvement resides in the provision of a spring-biased latch, said latch mounted on the forward open end of the barrel and having a detent which functions to releasably engage a shouldered head or cap on the outer end of the cigarette tray in a manner to normally retain the tray within the confines of the barrel and against the tension of a spring which, when released functions to automatically project the tray beyond the barrel to be loaded with a cigarette.

In addition to the above the invention features a washer which is interposed between cooperating portions of the barrel and mouthpiece, said washer being recessed for reception of the end of the cigarette which cooperates therewith in a manner to permit smoking the cigarette from one end to the other in a desirable and economical manner.

These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

FIGURE 1 is a view in perspective of the cigarette holder and ash tray combination constructed in accordance with the principles of the invention, ready for use;

FIGURE 2 is a view in perspective of the device shown in FIGURE 1, showing the cigarette holding tray unlatched and projected to its cigarette loading position;

3,121,434 Patented Feb. 18, 1964 FIGURE 3 is a view in perspective of the ash tray re moved from the barrel;

FIGURE 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view in perspective showing the guide at the centralized bottom portion of the holder;

FIGURE 5 is an enlarged central longitudinal sectional view.

FIGURES 6, 7, 8 and 9 are cross-sectional views on an exaggerated scale taken substantially on the section lines 6-6, 7-7, 88 and 9--9, respectively, of FIG- URE 5;

FIGURE 10 is a fragmentary view in section and elevation also on an exaggerated scale and taken on the plane of the horizontal line 1010 of FIGURE 5; and

FIGURES l1 and 12 are fragmentary sectional views on the section lines 11-11 and 1212 of FIGURE 10.

The elongated wind and ashguarding barrel 14 has its inner end portion 16 joined to a reduced end portion 18 at the outer end of the mouthpiece 20. The reduced end portion or neck 18 projects telescopically into the cooperating end portion of the barrel in the manner shown in FIGURE 10. With further reference to FIGURE 10 it will be evident that the smoke passage or bore is denoted at 22 the intake end portion of which is communicable with a counterbore 24. This counterbore serves to enclose the ported portion 26 of a tubular smoke con ducting stem 28. The lefthand end portion of the stem is threaded and screwed into the bore 12 as denoted at 30. The righthand end of the stem, as at 32 is screwthreaded to accommodate an assembling nut 34 which has orifices 35 (FIG. 11) therein. This nut-equipped end portion of the stem passes through a central opening provided therefor in the dished portion 36 of a washer 38. The marginal edge portion of the washer abuts the adjacent end of the neck of the mouthpiece and the dished or recessed portion 36 is fitted into the correspondingly recessed end portion of the counterbore 24, this portion of the washer having circumferentially spaced slots 49 therein with which the aforementioned orifices 35 register whereby to permit smoke to be drawn from the cigarette through these registering openings into the smoke passage of the tube 28 by way of the intake ports 26. The dished portion 36 and clamping nut 34 permit the end of the cigarette to project into the recess 36 for total consumption thereof. 1

The cigarette holding tray is normally enclosed in the barrel 14, is spring-loaded and projectible when unlatched. It is of one-piece construction and channelshaped in cross-section to cradle the cigarette 44 therein. The springy side walls 46 may be spread apart when the tray is in the projected loading position as shown in FIG. 2 to facilitate placing the cigarette therein. The longitudinal central portion of the tray 42 is provided with a channel-shaped rib 48 slidingly supported in a slot visible adjacent the left end of the member 42 in FIG. 5 and above the member 52 in FIG. 9, provided therefor in the bottom of the barrel. The rib 48 is also provided with a slot 52 which is aligned with the slot and these slots permit the ashes to gravitate into the receptacle portion of the second tray, that is the attachable and detachable ash tray 54. The forward or outward end of the tray 42 is provided with a hollow cap 56. This cap has an air slot 58 extending thereacross. and opening through the forward or tip end of the cap. The slot is planar and terminates at its rearward end portion in a pair of diametrically opposite enlarged openings 60. These openings are adapted to permit a flame from a match or a lighter (not shown) to be applied to the ignitable end of the cigarette. The slot in conjunction with the openings 60 also serves to admit air to the barrel to support combustion of a cigarette which is confined in the barrel in the manner illustrated in FIG. 5. It will be 3 noticed that the terminal end portions 62 of the tray walls are detached from the cap to permit spreading and to facilitate inserting the cigarette or removing the butt, if any. It will be further noted that the end portion 63 of the cap or head is provided with an endless outstanding head 65 which constitutes a shoulder which limits the inward sliding movement of the cigarette holding tray 42 and which also serves to accommodate the spring biased latch 64. This latch is pivoted between supporting lugs 66 and is held in latching position by a suitably arranged coil spring 68. The trippable fingerpiece of the latch is denoted at 70 and the hook-like detent at 72, the latter being engageable with the shoulder 65 in a manner to hold the tray in the barrel in closed position. Attention is directed to a coil spring 74 which is located on the underside and in fact within the lefthand end portion of the ash collecting tray 54. To accomplish this a segmental flange 76 is provided on the bottom of the end portion 16. This flange is L-shaped in cross-section as shown in FIG. to accommodate the lip portion 78 and to thus facilitate positioning and holding the ash tray 54 in place. Primarily, however, this flange 76 serves to support a cup 80 into which one end of the coil spring 74 is fitted and anchored. The other end of the spring is anchored in similar cup means 32 provided therefor on the underneath side of the rib 48. In FIG. 5 the coil spring between the cups 80 and 82 is shown in its compressed state. The member 80 is shown in its entirety in FIG. 9, for clarity. It is held in this state by the already described latch 64 engaging the shoulder 65.

It will be obvious that by depressing the fingerpiece or trigger 70 the latch 64 functions to release the detent 72 from the retaining shoulder 65 whereupon the spring 74 comes into play and automatically projects the tray 42 from the position shown in FIG. 1 to the cigarette loading position depicted in FIG. 2.

The ash tray 54 is also of channel-shaped form as shown in FIG. 3. On its central bottom side it is provided with a finger grippingknob 84 and at opposite end portions the side walls are provided with suitably shaped oppositely positioned lugs 86 which constitute detents. These detents are rigid but the material providing the walls of the barrel is slightly resilient whereby the detents are permitted to be snapped into keeper seats 88 (FIG. 9) which are provided therefor at the opposite end portions at diametrically opposite sides of the barrel 14. The tapered or sloping end portion 90 adapts itself to the coacting wall portion of the barrel in the manner illustrated in FIG. 5. I

When the latch has been released and the tray projected as shown in FIG. 2 it is an easy matter to place the cigarette in the tray 42. Then the head or cap 56 is grasped and the tray is slid back into the enclosing barrel and the latch is then in the position shown in FIG. 5. One may apply a lighted match or a lighter flame (not shown) to either one of the holes 60 and light the end of the cigarette. From then on the cigarette can be smoked from one end to the other because of the construction and arrangement and feeding of the smoke from the cigarette through the holes 35 and slots 40 into the ports 26 (FIGS. 12). The ash tray 54 can be readily applied and removed and serves well the purposes for which it is intended.

It is believed that a careful consideration of the de scription in conjunction with the figures of the drawings and in the light of the invention as claimed will provide a clear and comprehensive understanding of the same, the features and advantages and the manner of using the same. Therefore, a more extended description is regarded as unnecessary.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

1. A cigarette holding and smoking appliance comprising: a wind and ash guarding'barrel open at its forward and rearward ends, said barrel except for an ash discharging slot along the bottom thereof being imperforate, a mouthpiece attached to the rearward open end of said barrel, and a hollow cap supported and projecting beyond the forward open end of the barrel and aligned therewith, said cap having an air slot extending thereacross and opening through the forward end of said cap, said cap being otherwise imperforate, said slot being planar and terminating in diametrically opposed enlarged openings adapted to permit a flame to be'ap plied to the ignitable end of the cigarette and also to admit air to said barrel to support combustion of the cigarette confined in said barrel.

2. The structure according to claim 1, and in combination, a cigarette tray normally confined in said barrel, said cigarette tray having a supporting rib along its bottom slidingly mounted in and depending below the slot in said barrel, said rib being provided with a lengthwise slot registering with the slot in said barrel, said cap being attached to and carried by the forward end of said cigarette tray, and an ash collecting tray underlying the slotted bottom of said barrel and said rib, and means separably mounting said ash collecting tray on said barrel.

3. The structure defined in claim 1 and wherein said mouthpiece has a bore and a communicable counterbore, said counterbore being directed toward the open rearward end of said barrel, a hollow stem having one end portion cornmunicatively connected with the bore in said mouthpiece and having its other end portion projecting into said counterbore and provided with smoke inlet openings in communication with said counterbore, a washer interposed between adjacent cooperating portions of the forward end of said mouthpiece and rearward end of said barrel, said washer having ports therein, and the forward end of said stem being connected with a central portion of said washer.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS France May 26, 1925 

1. A CIGARETTE HOLDING AND SMOKING APPLIANCE COMPRISING: A WIND AND ASH GUARDING BARREL OPEN AT ITS FORWARD AND REARWARD ENDS, SAID BARREL EXCEPT FOR AN ASH DISCHARGING SLOT ALONG THE BOTTOM THEREOF BEING IMPERFORATE, A MOUTHPIECE ATTACHED TO THE REARWARD OPEN END OF SAID BARREL, AND A HOLLOW CAP SUPPORTED AND PROJECTING BEYOND THE FORWARD OPEN END OF THE BARREL AND ALIGNED THEREWITH, SAID CAP HAVING AN AIR SLOT EXTENDING THEREACROSS AND OPENING THROUGH THE FORWARD END OF SAID CAP, SAID CAP BEING OTHERWISE IMPERFORATE, SAID SLOT BEING PLANAR AND TERMINATING IN DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED ENLARGED OPENINGS ADAPTED TO PERMIT A FLAME TO BE APPLIED TO THE IGNITABLE END OF THE CIGARETTE AND ALSO TO ADMIT AIR TO SAID BARREL TO SUPPORT COMBUSTION OF THE CIGARETTE CONFINED IN SAID BARREL. 